This can be a SCARY TRICK when you first try it but with these tips hopefully you can make it through those first few attempts!!! Patreon: www.patreon.com/user?u=109961...
Hey my friend,I'm 45, I haven't skated in 30yrs. But just now getting back in. It was a lifesaver for me from 88 to 90 or 91. I was very good at street an getting into ramp. Then all of a sudden out of sight and mind. Very hard and broken home life. But skating was my life, something that took all the bad things away. It was skate or die for me n my pals. My board was my pillow, my board was my blanket, my board was my sword. It's there mentally but physically well I'd be better off walking out in front of traffic. But I'm processing. I have 4 kids that I've gotten into skating and it's such a good feeling. Ages 10, 10,9,&7. We have been kicked outta 2 places already and they can barely push off, excellent. They are already becoming sk8ers lol lol. I can't put into words how much of a passion skating was an is for me. It was something I was actually good at, loved and it washed everything bad away. Escape. Now I have a local indoor skate park opening up skating distance from my home. Insane it's very vintage looking also gives me chills. I can't wait to snuff up my board or body in this place. Thank you Ben for your humor, your motivation, your tips. Your a rad skater as we use to say. Just keep skating man.
Dude you taught me how to do drywall in my rentals, and now I’m getting back into skating after 5 years and you’re teaching me front blunts 😂 when it was a how to video and you popped up it took a whole 30 seconds to register that this is a skateboarding video. I’m happy to learn more from you though. Great channels!
I struggled with these for months and one day they clicked. My advice would be to practice stalling them on a curb straight on or at a 45 degree angle...smash that tail on the side (not the top) of the curb by leaning away from the curb and trying to lock in vertical
That’s interesting. Personally I find back blunts way easier. You can see everything and it’s easier to stand up on them an hold a longer slide.i also find them abit safer as your body’s not crossed up so it’s easier to bail if needed.but we are all different and some tricks are easier/more comfortable for some people than others. Good advice from Ben. Well thought out and explained.
@@justkeepskating8888 seeing your skating rails now you could also try them on there. Just think of popping over the rail to tailslide then work On lifting them.just a suggestion.
My question is why it that what Ben did is not backside? I don't understand the name of the trick, since you are backside ollieing to get into it. I'm assuming it's because you turn frontside to get out of it? I guess it followed the same conventions as board slides, which always seemed backwards to me.
@@idmhead0160 it’s frontside because as he’s approaching the obstacle it’s to his front. How I understand it is if he continues the rotation (as in a full 180) before landing into the grind. Like to 5050/nosegrind type thing then it would be backside because it’s a full backside 180 in. But because he’s only partially turned his front is still facing the obstacle
Never tried these, but always thought the weight needed to be up on the ledge. Thinking about keeping the weight at this side of the border seems a legit tip, I may try one on the next sesh! Thanks Ben
As a front blunt kinda guy too. Im terrified of trying back blunts! But for some reason, back blunt was my very first blunt slide I learned. I can even back blunt a whole ledge back in the day. Not sure why it's now scaring the crap out of me.
i found as a taller skater, the taller the ledge (to an extent) allowed me to balance in fs blunt much easier because of the counter weight between gravity pulling me down and using muscles ollie high/stay rigid but relaxed no idea what im talking about. could never fs blunt a small ledge, only curbs, flat bars, 2ft~ ish ledge.. any smaller and my balance went crazy. but thats like an easier bs ts. which is better suited for ledges! i miss skating so much hah.
I have the opposite problem. I get in and slip out! Landing it is the hardest part for me. I’m putting a lot of weight on my toe which is causing me to slip out, is it a shoulder problem for me? Or is it a weight problem? More on the ball of my foot instead of weight on my toes?
for me i learned front 5-0s and front blunts within the same two days on the same curb (obviously doesn’t count as actually having the trick if i can’t pop them higher than that) & id heavily say frontside if you can front board
Can you upload a shuv tutorial or a slappy 50 50 tutorial? Thank you! You helped me make a lot of choices of what i want to buy for my setup on your other channel.
I think it’d be dope if you made a small segment with the video flipped so it looks like you’re skating goofy. I don’t think it’s necessary but it can help us goofy skaters visualize it better 🤷♂️
Can someone please explain to me why this is considered a "frontside" rather than a "backside?" I'm assuming it is because it is using the same conventions as a board slide, but, it seems backwards to me considering you are doing a backside ollie to get into it. I guess it goes by how you get out of the trick?
How is this not bs? Your going backwards, sliding backwards and landing backwards, that's backside. Or if your switch and land in that poz, does it still count t as backside?
